The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.
Christopher MorleyBeing in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.
Christopher MorleyThere is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.
Christopher MorleyMy prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.
Christopher Morley